t/w domestic abuse mention, implied alcoholism
this is short but I've had this idea for a while
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Lia had been living at the Blackwood house for nearly a year at this point. Hadley had been born a few weeks earlier and was now asleep in her room. EJ had hit her, though not that that was anything new.
She was sitting in the kitchen, her head in her hands, when Clarissa walked in and promptly got out a bottle of wine, before pouring it into a glass. She probably would have just drank straight from the bottle if Lia hadn't been there. Lia had never seen Clarissa outright drunk, but she had seen her tipsy and she'd heard about the times she'd had alcohol poisoning, when Roxie was describing that memory one late night.
After a moment, Clarissa handed Lia a glass of wine.
"Uh-"
"Just- just don't say anything, alright? Just have a drink with me, okay, sweetheart?" Clarissa turned on that sad, kind smile.
Lia nodded, before sipping from her own glass.
